Socioemotional development in children with callous-unemotional traits: A case study of a multimodal intervention
2019 (English)In: Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes, ISSN 2340-8340, Vol. 6, no 1, p. 57-63Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A subgroup of children with conduct disorder (CD) has callous unemotional traits (CU, e.g., lack of empathy, caring behaviours and remorse), which predicts a negative evolution of this disorder. Responses to empirically supported interventions are very low in children with CD and CU traits. This case study presents an individualized intervention with an 11-year-old child who shows a stable and aggressive pattern of disruptive behaviour (CD and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and severe CU traits. The goals of the intervention focused on both emotion recognition and parent training. The results of the treatment presented in this case study show advances in socioemotional development along with a decrease of problematic conduct, which improve the child's ability to adapt to his environment. The need of personalizing and adjusting treatments aimed at modifying problematic conduct in children with CU is discussed to shed light on future approaches to clinical intervention
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Universidad Miguel Hernández, Departamento de Psicología de la Salud , 2019. Vol. 6, no 1, p. 57-63
Keywords [en]
callous-unemotional traits, conduct disorder, parent training, emotional recognition, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-71889DOI: 10.21134/rpcna.2019.06.1.8ISI: 000455521400008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85063295380OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-71889DiVA, id: diva2:1283563
Note
Funding Agency:
Programa de Axudas a Etapa Posdoutoral da Xunta de Galicia (Conselleria de Cultura, Educacion e Ordenacion Universitaria)
2019-01-292019-01-292023-12-08Bibliographically approved